COOLING OF A VERTICAL CYLINDER BY NATURAL-CONVECTION - AN UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIMENT

Authors
SPULLER JE COBB RW
Citation
Je. Spuller et Rw. Cobb, COOLING OF A VERTICAL CYLINDER BY NATURAL-CONVECTION - AN UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIMENT, American journal of physics, 61(6), 1993, pp. 568-571
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
American journal of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029505
Volume
61
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
568 - 571
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9505(1993)61:6<568:COAVCB>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The transient cooling of a vertical cylinder by natural convection is studied in a computerized undergraduate laboratory experiment. The dep endence of the heat transfer coefficient on temperature is determined using simple data fitting algorithms. The results of the experiment cl early show that the natural convection heat transfer coefficient is pr oportional to DELTAT1/4 , in agreement with previously published value s.